History Wrestling / SurvivorSeries

* TheArtifact: In 2009, WWE introduced a PPV called ''Bragging Rights'' that was about brand warfare - centred around Raw vs Smackdown matches. It even featured a big multi-brand tag match, making ''Survivor Series'' rather redundant as a result. But with the brand split getting dissolved in 2011, Bragging Rights was abandoned. Since the split being reinstated the Bragging Rights concept and scoreboard has been incorporated into Survivor Series itself.
* ArtifactTitle: Survivor Series originally revolved entirely around elimination style 8-man tag team matches, which gradually decreased in use until you'd be lucky to have ''one'' traditional SS match on the card, putting its titular match in the same "attraction surrounded by other things" ballpark as the Wrestling/RoyalRumble.

* AllOrNothing:
** The "winner takes all" match between Team WWF and Team Alliance in 2001.
** This match marked the end of the Invasion angle. [[spoiler: [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock]] pinned [[Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin Stone Cold Steve Austin]], who was the mole within the alliance, in order to win the match and save the WWF.]]

* [[Wrestling/RusevAndLana Lana]] in 2020.

** The 2020 event features Wrestling/BobbyLashley (the United States Champion), representing The Hurt Business, and Wrestling/SamiZayn (the Intercontinental champion).

* AllOrNothing: The "winner takes all" match between Team WWF and Team Alliance in 2001.

* MeleeATrois: The 2019 event was a threeway fight between RAW, [=SmackDown=] and [[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]]. This was incorporated into the matches of the night, with representatives from all three brands being involved in Triple Threat matches.[[note]]A twelve-TagTeam battle royale featuring four teams from each brand, a Cruiserweight Championship match featuring Akira Tozawa (RAW), Kalisto ([=SmackDown=]) and Lio Rush (NXT) and each brands' TagTeam champions (The Viking Raiders, the New Day and the Undisputed Era, respectively) on the pre-show, with the main show featuring three-team elimination matches for both the men and the women as well as matches for both the midcard champions (US Champion AJ Styles, Intercontinental Champion Shinsuke Nakamura and NXT North American Champion Roderick Strong) and the Women's Champions (Becky Lynch, Bayley and Shayna Baszler). The uppercard champions were exempt from this, instead having title defenses against wrestlers from their own brands.[[/note]]

* ArtifactTitle: Survivor Series originally revolved entirely around elimination style 8-man tag team matches, which gradually decreased in use until you'd be lucky to have ''one'' traditional SS match on the card.
** Then again, one realizes that the ''Royal Rumble'' has only one Rumble on the card, that is until the first ever Women's Royal Rumble in 2018.

* GrayAndGrayMorality: Wrestling/{{The InVasion|Angle}} story line and the Brand battles feature teams that consis of both {{Heel}}s and {{Face}}s duking it out and acting accordingly depending on circumstances and narrative.

* MeleeATrois: The 2019 event was a threeway fight between RAW, [=SmackDown=] and [[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]].
* NearVillainVictory: Team Cena vs. Team Authority in 2014. Wrestling/DolphZiggler was making his last stand the betrayal of the Big Show had reduced his team to just him. Everytime he tried to get an edge over Seth Rollins, Triple H would take out a referee. When Zigger kicked out of a pin by a crooked ref, Trips Pedigreed him and laid Rollins arm for the victory. When all seemed lost...the Stinger appeared.

* TheArtifact: In 2009, WWE introduced a PPV called ''Bragging Rights'' that was about brand warfare - centred around Raw vs Smackdown matches. It even featured a big multi-brand tag match, making ''Survivor Series'' rather redundant as a result. But with the brand split getting dissolved in 2011, Bragging Rights was abandoned.

** 2019 featured Wrestling/{{Rey Mysterio|Jr}} (b. 1974) Versus Wrestling/BrockLesnar (b. 1977).

* GrayAndGrayMorality: The Invasion story line and the Brand battles feature teams that consis of both {{Heel}}s and {{Face}}s duking it out and acting accordingly depending on circumstances and narrative.

** Several wrestlers were the SoleSurvivor more than once, namely; The Wrestling/UltimateWarrior (1988-90), Wrestling/RicFlair (1991 and 2006), [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock]] (1996 and 2001), Wrestling/RandyOrton (2003-2005), and Wrestling/DolphZiggler (2012 and 2014).

* JustifiedTitle: The 1998 and 2002 events didn't have the traditional 5-on-5 tag team matches, but the TournamentArc for the vacant WWF title (1998) and the debut of the Elimination Chamber match for the World Heavyweight title (2002) emphasized the theme of "Survival".
* MeleeATrois: 2019's Survivor Series was a threeway fight between RAW, [=SmackDown=] and [[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]].

* ShaggyDogStory: The TournamentArc for the 2015 event was ruined when Sheamus cashed in his Money in the Bank. Triple H also assisted him, continuing the Authority’s unending reign of terror.

** Andre The Giant is the UrExample, being the sole survivor for his team against Hulk Hogan's team in the main event of the first ''Survivor Series'' in 1987.

** Rhea Ripley in 2019.

** The most unlikely example happened in 1994. The opening match was the Bad Guys (see NonIndicativeName above) vs. the Teamsters [[note]](Shawn Michaels[=/=][[Wrestling/KevinNash Diesel]][=/=]Owen Hart[=/=]Jim Neidhart[=/=]Wrestling/JeffJarrett)[[/note]]. Diesel had eliminated the 1-2-3 Kid and the Headshrinkers, and Davey Boy had been counted out, leaving Razor in the unenviable position of having to fight ''five guys'' all by himself. Then Shawn and Diesel started fighting and the entire heel team followed them, thus marking the one and only time in ''Survivor Series'' history where an ''entire team'' had been counted out.

** Wrestling/RomanReigns in 2013.

* MeleeATrois: WWE announced on Halloween 2019 that they have plans to make 2019's Survivor Series a threeway fight between RAW, [=SmackDown=] and Wrestling/{{WWENXT}}.

** Also, the TournamentArc for the 2015 event was ruined when Sheamus cashed in his Money in the Bank.

** Zeus, via DQ, in the Hulkamaniacs[[note]]Hogan[=/=][[Wrestling/JakeRoberts Jake "The Snake" Roberts]][=/=]Wrestling/{{Demolition}}[[/note]] vs. the Million Dollar Team[[note]][[Wrestling/TedDiBiase "The Million Dollar Man" Ted [=DiBiase=]]][=/=]Zeus[=/=]The Powers of Pain [The Warlord and Wrestling/TheBarbarian][[/note]] match, 1989.

** "The Visionaries" (Rick Martel, Warlord, Wrestling/{{Hercules|Hernandez}}, and Paul Roma) swept "The Vipers" (Jake Roberts, Jimmy Snuka, Shawn Michaels and Marty Janetty) in 1990, the first team to do so.

* NonIndicativeName: At ''Survivor Series 1994,'' [[Wrestling/ScottHall Razor Ramon]] captained the Bad Guys [[note]](Razor[=/=][[Wrestling/SeanWaltman The 1-2-3 Kid]][=/=]Wrestling/DaveyBoySmith[=/=][[WildSamoan the Headshrinkers]] [Fatu [[=Rikishi=]] and Sionne [The Barbarian])[[/note]], who were actually the ''{{Face}}s''. The name is a reference to Ramon's nickname and was an ArtifactTitle by then.

** 1991 and 1992 showed that WWE was experimenting with the format. Along with featuring the first ever 3-on-3 match, with Team Bossman [[note]]([[Wrestling/BigBossman The Big Bossman]] and [[Wrestling/TheRoadWarriors the Legion of Doom]])[[/note]] vs. Team IRS [[note]]([[Wrestling/MikeRotunda IRS]] and the Natural Disasters (Earthquake and Typhoon)[[/note]], it also featured the first ever singles match in ''Survivor Series'' history, with The Undertaker defeating [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-h.html WWE World Heavyweight Champion]] Hulk Hogan for the title.

* OneHitKill: Tito Santana's Flying Forearm at ''Survivor Series 1990.'' In the match between the Alliance [[note]](Wrestling/NikolaiVolkoff[=/=]Tito[=/=]Wrestling/TheBushwhackers)[[/note]] and the Mercenaries [[note]](Sgt. Slaughter[=/=]Boris Zhukov[=/=]The Orient Express [Akio Sato and Pat Tanaka])[[/note]], Tito took out Boris with it a mere 48 seconds into the match. In the GrandFinale match described above, he took out the Warlord with it '''28''' seconds into the match.

** "The Visionaries" (Rick Martel, Warlord, Hercules, and Paul Roma) swept "The Vipers" (Jake Roberts, Jimmy Snuka, Shawn Michaels and Marty Janetty) in 1990, the first team to do so.

** 2015 featured Wrestling/{{Undertaker}} and Wrestling/{{Kane}} Versus Wrestling/TheWyattFamily.

* OneHitKill: Tito Santana's Flying Forearm at ''Survivor Series 1990.'' In the match between the Alliance [[note]](Wrestling/NikolaiVolkoff[=/=]Tito[=/=][[Wrestling/TheSheepherders The Bushwhackers]])[[/note]] and the Mercenaries [[note]](Sgt. Slaughter[=/=]Boris Zhukov[=/=]The Orient Express [Akio Sato and Pat Tanaka])[[/note]], Tito took out Boris with it a mere 48 seconds into the match. In the GrandFinale match described above, he took out the Warlord with it '''28''' seconds into the match.

** Also, the TournamentArc for the 2015 was ruined when Sheamus cashed in his Money in the Bank.

** Wrestling/TheUndertaker in 1990, [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson Rocky Maivia]] (later [[TookALevelInBadass The Rock]]) in 1996, Wrestling/KurtAngle in 1999, [[Wrestling/CarleneMoore Jazz]] in 2001, Wrestling/TheShield (as a group) in 2012, and technically Wrestling/{{Sting}} in 2014 are notable examples.

** PlayedWith during the Main Event of the 1997 event. Both defending WWF champion Wrestling/BretHart and Wrestling/ShawnMichaels were {{Heel}}s at the time, but the event took place in Canada which Bret and all the other Harts are treated as {{Face}}s by default.
** The Main Event of the 2018 event features WWE champion [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]] and Universal Champion Wrestling/BrockLesnar, both of whom are {{Heel}}s.

* NonIndicativeName: At ''Survivor Series 1994,'' [[Wrestling/ScottHall Razor Ramon]] captained the Bad Guys [[note]](Razor[=/=][[Wrestling/SeanWaltman The 1-2-3 Kid]][=/=]Wrestling/DaveyBoySmith[=/=][[WildSamoan the Headshrinkers]] [Fatu [[=Rikishi=]] and Sionne [The Barbarian])[[/note]], who were actually the ''{{Face}}s''.